US6990358B2 - System and method for monitoring receiving portion in wireless base station system, and recording medium on which monitoring program is recorded - Google Patents

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US6990358B2 US10/198,995 US19899502A US6990358B2 US 6990358 B2 US6990358 B2 US 6990358B2 US 19899502 A US19899502 A US 19899502A US 6990358 B2 US6990358 B2 US 6990358B2
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  • the present invention relates to a system and method for monitoring a receiving portion in a wireless base station system and to a recording medium on which a monitoring program is recorded. More particularly, the present invention relates to a system and method for monitoring a receiving portion in a wireless base station system which performs communication with mobile terminals and to a recording medium on which a monitoring program is recorded.
  • NF noise figure
  • WCDMA wideband code division multiple access
  • the technique disclosed in the related art document 1 relates to a device for detecting a fault in a high-sensitivity wireless portion installed outside a building.
  • a detection of a fault in an outdoor receiver is performed by making determination using monitoring means 35 as to whether a pilot signal level is lower than a reference value.
  • the invention disclosed in this document differs from the present invention in that it does not use the bit error rate (BER) as a determination criterion.
  • BER bit error rate
  • the technique disclosed in the related art document 2 uses means for detecting a fading pitch from a reception signal, BER detection means, received input level measuring means in a mobile wireless portion, and appropriate moving speed detection means for deriving a current appropriate moving speed from fading pitch detection information, BER, and received input level information.
  • This technique enables a user to reduce a deterioration in communication quality due to fading by considering the derived moving speed.
  • the invention disclosed in this document differs from the present invention in that it is concerned with a mobile wireless portion and aims to reduce deterioration in communication quality due to fading.
  • the technique disclosed in the related art document 3 relates to a device for detecting a fault in a receiver amplifier installed outside a building and makes fault determination by preparing a fault detection reference value from a standard attenuation value relating to leakage of a transmitted signal from a transmitter to a receiving circuit in an antenna-sharing unit, a standard amplification value of the receiver amplifier, and transmission power information of the transmitter, and by comparing electric field intensity information output from an electric field detecting portion with the reference value.
  • the invention disclosed in this document differs from the present invention in that it uses no pilot signal.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide, as means capable of solving the above-described problem, a system and method for monitoring a receiving portion in a wireless base station system in which the NF and feeder loss of an outdoor receiver amplifier are automatically computed to report a correct level of received total wideband power (RTWP).
  • RCWP total wideband power
  • a receiving portion monitoring system in a wireless base station system including receiving and amplifying means for amplifying a received signal, and wireless base station means for demodulating a signal output from the receiving and amplifying means and for detecting a fault in the receiving and amplifying means on the basis of the demodulated signal, the receiving and amplifying means including a pilot signal generation portion which generates a pilot signal for detection of a fault, and an amplifier which amplifies the received signal and the pilot signal, and the wireless base station means including a wireless portion which demodulates a signal output from the amplifier and computes a received signal code power (RSCP) value and a BER value from the demodulated signal, a detection portion which computes a feeder loss and an NF value between the receiving and amplifying means and the wireless base station means from the computed RSCP and BER values, and an RTWP processing portion which outputs an RTWP value including a value relating to the
  • RSCP received signal code power
  • a receiving portion monitoring method for a wireless base station system including receiving and amplifying means for amplifying a received signal, and wireless base station means for demodulating a signal output from the receiving and amplifying means and for detecting a fault in the receiving and amplifying means on the basis of the demodulated signal, the receiving and amplifying means including a pilot signal generation portion which generates a pilot signal for detection of a fault, and an amplifier which amplifies the received signal and the pilot signal, the method comprising, as steps to be performed in the wireless base station means, a first step of demodulating a signal output from the amplifier and computing an RSCP value and a BER value from the demodulated signal, a second step of computing a feeder loss and an NF value between the receiving and amplifying means and the wireless base station means from the computed RSCP and BER values, and a third step of outputting an RTWP value including a value relating to the NF value detected in the second step.
  • a recording medium on which is recorded a program for making a computer carry out a receiving portion monitoring method for a wireless base station system including receiving and amplifying means for amplifying a received signal, and wireless base station means for demodulating a signal output from the receiving and amplifying means and for detecting a fault in the receiving and amplifying means on the basis of the demodulated signal, the receiving and amplifying means including a pilot signal generation portion which generates a pilot signal for detection of a fault, and an amplifier which amplifies the received signal and the pilot signal, the wireless base station means including the recording medium, the program including a first step of demodulating a signal output from the amplifier and computing an RSCP value and a BER value from the demodulated signal, a second step of computing a feeder loss and an NF value between the receiving and amplifying means and the wireless base station means from the computed RSCP and BER values, and a third step of outputting an RTWP value including a
  • the system is arranged to automatically compute the NF of the outdoor receiver amplifier and the loss in the feeder and to report correct RTWP, thus solving the above-described problem.
  • FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a wireless base station system in the best mode of implementation of the present invention
  • FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of an example of an outdoor receiver amplifier 3 ;
  • FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration of an example of a wireless base station apparatus 5 ;
  • FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an operation of a first embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an input level-vs.-BER/RSCP characteristic of a wireless portion 11 ;
  • FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an input level-vs.-RTWP characteristic of the wireless portion 11 ;
  • FIG. 7 is a diagram of the NF level in the wireless base station system
  • FIG. 8 is a diagram showing NF/RTWP characteristics of the wireless base station system.
  • FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing an operation of a fourth embodiment.
  • FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a wireless base station system in the best mode of implementation of the invention.
  • the wireless base station system is constituted by a transmitting/receiving antenna 1 , a receiving-only antenna 2 , an outdoor receiver amplifier 3 which separates a transmitted wireless signal and a received wireless signal from each other and performs low-nose amplification of the received wireless signal only, a wireless base station apparatus 5 which performs modulation/demodulation of transmitted/received wireless signals and detects a malfunction of the outdoor receiver amplifier 3 , feeders 4 A and 4 B connected between the outdoor receiver amplifier 3 and the wireless base station apparatus 5 and used for superimposition of transmitted/received wireless signals and power supplied to the outdoor receiver amplifier 3 , and a feeder 4 C used for transmitted wireless signal transmission.
  • FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the configuration of an example of the outdoor receiver amplifier 3 .
  • the outdoor receiver amplifier 3 is constituted by a duplexer 10 (hereinafter referred to as DUP 10 ) which separates a transmitted wireless signal from the wireless base station apparatus 5 within a band by eliminating useless energy outside the band for outputting to the transmitting/receiving antenna 1 , and separates a received wireless signal from the transmitting/receiving antenna 1 within a band by eliminating useless energy outside the band, a pilot signal oscillation portion 8 A forming a signal source for detection of a malfunction of the outdoor receiver amplifier 3 , a circulator portion 7 A (hereinafter referred to as CUR 7 A) which outputs in a predetermined direction the received wireless signal and a pilot signal from the pilot signal oscillation portion 8 A, and a low-noise amplification portion 9 (hereinafter referred to as LNA 9 A) to which power from the feeder 4 A is
  • DUP 10 duplexer 10
  • CUR 7 A circulator portion
  • a path for a received wireless signal from the receiving-only antenna 2 is formed by a band-pass filter 6 (hereinafter referred to as BPF 6 ) which separates the received wireless signal within a band by eliminating useless energy outside the band, a CUR 7 B, a pilot oscillation portion 8 B, and an LNA 9 B.
  • BPF 6 band-pass filter 6
  • FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the configuration of an example of the wireless base station apparatus 5 .
  • the wireless base station apparatus 5 is constituted by a wireless portion 11 which generates a wireless signal to be transmitted and demodulates received wireless signals in two systems, i.e., a 0-system and a 1-system, a power supply portion 14 which generates power to be supplied to the outdoor receiver amplifier 3 , and bias T portions 15 A and 15 B which separate or multiplex received wireless signals and power, which supply the received wireless signals from the outdoor receiver amplifier 3 to the wireless portion 11 in a superposition manner, and which supply power from the power supply portion 14 to the receiving feeders 4 A and 4 B in a superposition manner.
  • the wireless base station apparatus 5 is also constituted by a detection portion 12 which detects and determines signals demodulated by the wireless portion 11 , i.e., the signals from the pilot oscillation portions 8 A and 8 B of the outdoor receiver amplifier 3 , an RTWP processing portion 13 which performs RTWP processing by computing an NF of the outdoor receiver amplifier 3 from a report value from the detection portion 12 , a central processing unit (CPU) 31 described below, and a recording medium 32 .
  • a detection portion 12 which detects and determines signals demodulated by the wireless portion 11 , i.e., the signals from the pilot oscillation portions 8 A and 8 B of the outdoor receiver amplifier 3
  • an RTWP processing portion 13 which performs RTWP processing by computing an NF of the outdoor receiver amplifier 3 from a report value from the detection portion 12
  • CPU central processing unit
  • the first embodiment is an application of the present invention to a mobile communication system using as an access method a direct sequence-CDMA (DS-CDMA) having a chip rate of 3.84 Mbps.
  • DS-CDMA direct sequence-CDMA
  • FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the first embodiment
  • FIG. 5 is diagram showing an input level-vs.-BER/RSCP characteristic of the wireless portion 11
  • FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an input level-vs.-RTWP characteristic of the wireless portion 11
  • FIG. 7 is a diagram of the NF level in the wireless base station system
  • FIG. 8 is a diagram showing NF/RTWP characteristics of the wireless base station system.
  • the operation of the first embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 8 .
  • the outdoor receiver amplifier 3 and the wireless base station apparatus 5 of the present invention are assumed to have a diversity function on the receiving side only.
  • the flow of transmitted wireless signal in the transmitting system will first be described.
  • the wireless portion 11 of the wireless base station apparatus 5 generates and outputs a predetermined modulated WCDMA wave for communication with a mobile device.
  • the output transmitted wireless signal is supplied to the outdoor receiver amplifier 3 via the transmitting system feeder 4 C, band-restricted by the DUP 10 in the outdoor receiver amplifier 3 , and supplied to the transmitting/receiving antenna 1 .
  • a 0-system received wireless signal is received by the transmitting/receiving antenna 1 , receiving-band-restricted by the DUP 10 , supplied to the LNA 9 A via the CUR 7 A, power-amplified to a predetermined degree of amplification by the LNA 9 A, and output from the outdoor receiver amplifier 3 .
  • the 0-system received wireless signal output from the receiver amplifier 3 is input to the wireless base station apparatus 5 via the 0-system receiving feeder 4 A, supplied to the wireless portion 11 through the bias T portion 15 A, and demodulated by CDMA despreading in the wireless portion 11 .
  • a 1-system received wireless signal is received by the receiving-only antenna 2 , receiving-band-restricted by the BPF 6 , supplied to the LNA 9 B via the CUR 7 B, power-amplified to a predetermined degree of amplification by the low-noise amplifier 9 B, and output from the outdoor receiver amplifier 3 .
  • the 1-system received wireless signal output from the receiver amplifier 3 is input to the wireless base station apparatus 5 through the 1-system receiving feeder 4 B, supplied to the wireless portion 11 through the bias T portion 15 B, and demodulated by CDMA despreading in the wireless portion 11 .
  • a predetermined voltage is generated by the power supply portion 14 of the wireless base station apparatus 5 .
  • the bias T portions 15 A and 15 B superimpose this voltage on the signals transmitted through the feeders 4 A and 4 B. Power supplied via each of the feeders 4 A and 4 B is separated from the superimposed signals in the LNA 9 A or 9 B.
  • the LNAs 9 A and 9 B perform predetermined low-noise amplification.
  • the DS-WCDMA system is thus constructed which uses the wireless base station system constituted by the wireless base station apparatus 5 , the outdoor receiver amplifier 3 , the transmitting/receiving antenna 1 and the receiving-only antenna 2 and having the above-described signal flows, thereby enabling communication between mobile terminals.
  • the outdoor receiver amplifier 3 is ordinarily placed in such an environment that its maintainability is low, i.e., at a position immediately below the outside antenna.
  • a WCDMA wave is generated at a predetermined level in a predetermined code in the pilot oscillation portion 8 A to be output as a pilot signal.
  • This pilot signal is transmitted to the wireless portion 11 via the CUR 7 A, the low-noise amplifier 9 A, the feeder 4 A, and the bias T portion 15 A of the wireless base station apparatus 5 and is despread at a predetermined spreading gain by the wireless portion 11 .
  • Fault detection is performed in the detection portion 12 by determining whether this despread signal is within a predetermined received signal code power (RSCP) range and within a predetermined bit error rate (BER) range.
  • RSCP received signal code power
  • BER bit error rate
  • an NF value is computed from the RSCP value and the BER value.
  • the wireless portion 11 computes the BER value (on a curve similar to a hyperbolic curve) corresponding to the input level and the RSCP value linearly proportional to the input level, as shown in FIG. 5 . That is, the wireless portion 11 has the function of computing the RSCP value and the BER value corresponding to the input level from the input level.
  • the NF value of the equipment is obtained by an inverse operation from the BER value in particular, and a received input level value (RTWP value) determined by the RTWP processing portion 13 so as to include a value relating to the NF value is reported to a host unit.
  • a WCDMA wave generated in the pilot oscillation portion 8 B is transmitted to the wireless portion 11 via the CUR 7 B, the low-noise amplifier 9 B, the feeder 4 B, and the bias T portion 15 B of the wireless base station apparatus 5 and is despread at a predetermined spreading gain by the wireless portion 11 .
  • the despread signal undergoes the same processing in the detection portion 12 .
  • a standard sensitivity of the wireless base station system is prescribed in the specification (TS25.104) provided by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project Working Group 4 (3GPP WG4) such that the input level when the data rate is 12.2 kbps and when the BER is 0.1% is ⁇ 121 dBm or less.
  • NFt 10log(10 ⁇ ( NFa/ 10)+((10 ⁇ (( NFb/ 10+ NFc/ 10)/10) ⁇ 1)/10 ⁇ ( Ga/ 10))) (2)
  • the standard sensitivity is determined from NFa and gain Ga of the outdoor receiver amplifier 3 , feeder loss NFb, and NFc of the wireless portion 11 .
  • NFa of the outdoor receiver amplifier 3 is determined from the losses in the DUP 10 and the BPF 6 , which are passive devices, (the losses in the CURs 7 A and 7 B ignored) and NFd of the LNAs 9 A and 9 B.
  • the desired value of NFt of the outdoor receiver amplifier 3 e.g., 3 dB can be obtained if the loss due to the DUP 10 and the BPF 6 is 1 dB and if NFd of the LNAs 9 A and 9 B is 2 dB.
  • the total NF from the pilot oscillation portion 8 A or 8 B is influenced by the NF after the CUR 7 A or 7 B.
  • the loss from each of the pilot oscillation portions 8 A and 8 B of CURs 7 A and 7 B to the LNA 9 A or 9 B is 1 dB, equal to that in the case of the DUP 10 .
  • the total NFt of the wireless base station system is equal to the total NFe from the pilot portion 8 A or 8 B.
  • the RSCP value and the BER value obtained when a ⁇ 121 dBm WCDMA signal is input to one of the antenna input terminals and the RSCP value and the BER value obtained when the ⁇ 121 dBm WCDMA signal is output from the pilot portion 8 A or 8 B can be computed as the same values.
  • a method computing the RTWP value is defined as described below.
  • a value relating to the NF and thermal noise of the equipment is added to the total power received through each of the antenna input terminals, i.e., the transmitting/receiving antenna 1 and the receiving-only antenna 2 .
  • the total power is the entire WCDMA energy input to the antenna. That is, if a plurality of mobile terminals exist, the total power is the sum of the value of power totalized from the mobile terminals and the level of thermal noise.
  • the NF of the equipment is the NFt from the antenna terminal, i.e., the total NF of the wireless base station system.
  • processing in the RTWP processing portion 13 of the wireless base station apparatus 5 should be performed so that the RTWP report value is ⁇ 102.8/ ⁇ 101.7/ ⁇ 100.6/ ⁇ 98.7/ ⁇ 89.8 dBm (see FIGS. 8 and 6 ).
  • RTWP detection method in accordance with the present invention will next be described below with reference to FIG. 4 .
  • the above-described gain, NF, and loss values are used with respect to the outdoor receiver amplifier 3 , the feeders 4 A and 4 B, and the wireless portion 11 .
  • the RTWP value detection process be executed before the WCDMA system becomes operational, and that, after the system has started operating, the RTWP value detection process be executed periodically or in a situation where variation in a natural environment, e.g., variation in open-air temperature is small and traffic is low.
  • the voltage is applied to the LNAs 4 A and 4 B and to the pilot oscillation portions 8 A and 8 B (S 2 ) and the pilot oscillation portions 8 A and 8 B output WCDMA signals in a predetermined code at a transmission rate of 12.2 kbps and at ⁇ 121 dBm.
  • the RSCP value is computed from the despread signals (RSCP value assumed to be XdBm).
  • the parameters for computation of the RSCP value are uniquely determined from the wireless level diagram (the characteristic diagram of FIG. 5 ).
  • the feeder loss of 30 dB is computed by inverse operation from the RSCP value and the BER value obtained this time.
  • the NFt value of the equation (3) computed by the RTWP processing portion 13 is initialized to 3.6 dB according to this obtained NFt, thus completing the process (S 6 ).
  • a second embodiment of the present invention will next be described.
  • An example of the operation in a case where a decrease in open-air temperature, for example, occurs as a change in a natural environment generally, the NF of the active element is thereby reduced; for example, the NF of the LNAs 9 A and 9 B is reduced from 2 dB to 1 dB (see ⁇ circle around ( 2 ) ⁇ in FIG. 7 ) will be described in detail.
  • the ⁇ 121 dBm WCDMA signal from the pilot oscillation portions 8 A and 8 B the wireless level diagram is not changed from that initially set. Therefore the RSCP value (XdBm) is computed also from ⁇ 121 dBm.
  • the value 2.8 dB is stored as NFt of the RTWP processing portion 13 . If the input level is ⁇ 108/ ⁇ 105/ ⁇ 103/ ⁇ 100/ ⁇ 90 dBm, the RTWP value corresponding to the input level is ⁇ 103.4/ ⁇ 102.1/ ⁇ 101/ ⁇ 98.9/ ⁇ 89.8 dBm (see ⁇ circle around ( 2 ) ⁇ in FIG. 8 and FIG. 6 ).
  • the correct RTWP value at the current time can be computed by the process of this embodiment shown in the flowchart.
  • a third embodiment of the present invention will be described. Even in a case where a wireless base station system is constructed, for example, with such a feeder length that the feeder loss is 25 dB, the following computation can be performed if the basic form of the wireless level diagram is provided.
  • a fixed amplification degree of 40 dB for an outdoor air receiver amplifier (OARA), a feeder loss of ⁇ dB, and an RSCP value of ⁇ 81 dBm after despreading in the wireless portion 11 are computed from the pilot output level ⁇ 121 dBm.
  • OARA outdoor air receiver amplifier
  • a feeder loss of ⁇ dB a feeder loss of ⁇ dB
  • an RSCP value ⁇ 81 dBm after despreading in the wireless portion 11 are computed from the pilot output level ⁇ 121 dBm.
  • the value 25 dB smaller by 5 dB than the feeder loss reference value 30 dB can be computed.
  • an equipment NFt value of 3.2 dB can be compute
  • FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing an operation of the fourth embodiment.
  • the flowchart of FIG. 9 is formed by adding a step S 11 between steps S 3 and S 4 shown in the flowchart of FIG. 4 , and steps S 1 to S 6 shown in the flowchart of FIG. 9 are the same as those in FIG. 4 . Therefore the description of these steps will not be repeated.
  • a fixed value of ⁇ 121 dBm is used as the output level of the above-described pilot oscillation portions 8 A and 8 B even for computation of the RSCP value and the BER value.
  • the output level of the pilot oscillation portions 8 A and 8 B is increased, for example, by 20 dB in advance to ensure detection of the RSCP value in a situation where RTWP processing may be influenced by an external factor, e.g., high traffic.
  • the output level is thereafter returned to ⁇ 121 dBm (step S 11 ) and the BER value is computed.
  • the fifth embodiment relates to a recording medium on which a program for making a computer carry out the method of monitoring the receiving portion in the wireless base station system is stored.
  • the wireless base station apparatus 5 shown in FIG. 3 includes the CPU 31 and the recording medium 32 .
  • a program for making the computer execute the process shown in the flowchart of FIG. 4 or 9 is recorded on the recording medium 32 .
  • the CPU 31 reads out the program from the recording medium 32 and controls the power supply portion 14 , the wireless portion 11 , the detection portion 12 , and the RTWP processing portion 13 in accordance with the program.
  • the contents of the program have already been described and the description of them will be omitted.
  • a receiving portion monitoring system in a wireless base station system includes receiving and amplifying means for amplifying a received signal, and wireless base station means for detecting a fault in the receiving and amplifying means on the basis of a demodulated signal obtained by demodulating a signal output from the receiving and amplifying means;
  • the receiving and amplifying means includes a pilot signal generation portion which generates a pilot signal for detection of a fault, and an amplifier which amplifies the received signal and the pilot signal;
  • the wireless base station means includes a wireless portion which demodulates a signal output from the amplifier and computes an RSCP value and a BER value from the demodulated signal, a detection portion which computes a feeder loss and an NF value between the receiving and amplifying means and the wireless base station means from the computed RSCP and BER values, and an RTWP processing portion which outputs an RTWP value including a value relating to the NF value detected by the detection portion.
  • a first advantage of the present invention resides in that the feeder loss can be automatically computed. This is because the RSCP value can be computed by despreading in the wireless portion a predetermined WCDMA signal from the pilot oscillation portion.
  • a second advantage of the present invention resides in that the NF of the outdoor receiver amplifier can be automatically computed. This is because the BER value can be computed by despreading in the wireless portion a predetermined WCDMA signal from the pilot oscillation portion.
  • a third advantage of the present invention resides in that the maintainability of the outdoor receiver amplifier is improved, there is no need to move measuring devices to measurement places, and there is no need to perform operations in any dangerous place, e.g., immediately below the outside antenna. This is because the NF of the outdoor receiver amplifier and the loss in the feeder can be computed by despreading in the wireless portion a predetermined WCDMA signal from the pilot oscillation portion.
  • a fourth advantage of the present invention resides in that variation in the NF of the outdoor receiver amplifier due to variation in a natural environment can be detected. This is because the BER can be computed by despreading in the wireless portion a predetermined WCDMA signal from the pilot oscillation portion.
  • a fifth advantage of the present invention resides in that the RTWP can be computed with accuracy even in the case of a multivendor configuration of the outdoor receiver amplifier. This is because the NF of the outdoor receiver amplifier can be computed and because the initial value of the equation for computation in the RTWP processing portion can be changed.

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